1. An employee who sweeps (floors or streets etc.)
   "The street sweeper worked through the night to clean the city's roads"
    
2. A cleaning implement with revolving brushes that pick up dirt as the implement is pushed over a carpet
   "She quickly ran the carpet sweeper over the floor before guests arrived";
   - carpet sweeper
    
3. Little-known nocturnal fish of warm shallow seas with an oblong compressed body
   "The marine biologist was excited to observe a rare sweeper during the night dive"
    
4. (soccer) a defender who is the last line of defence before the goalkeeper
   "The team's sweeper made a crucial tackle to prevent a goal";
   - libero

Derived forms: sweepers

Type of: cleaning device, cleaning equipment, cleaning implement, employe [US], employee, teleost, teleost fish, teleostan

Part of: family Pempheridae, Pempheridae

Encyclopedia: Sweeper